Perception and Sensing in the Context of Partially and Fully Autonomous Civil Systems

A Warren Distinguished Lecture with
Christian Claudel

Transportation Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

ABSTRACT
In this talk, Christian Claudel discusses the development and testing of two autonomous and partially autonomous systems at the University of Texas. The first system is a traffic collision avoidance system for ground traffic using Augmented Reality (AR) devices in passthrough mode. He discusses the design of the system and some early results, with future potential. The second system is an autonomous rover that detects and classifies microplastics on beaches using near Infrared spectroscopy. He similarly discusses the iterative design of this system and future potential developments. 

SPEAKER
Christian Claudel is an Associate Professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at UT-Austin. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California-Berkeley in 2010, and his MS degree in Plasma Physics from Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon in 2004. His research interests include control and estimation of distributed parameter systems, robotics, wireless sensor networks and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Key Words: Transportation, autonomous systems, sensors